Transfer Restrictions and Roleplayers

[Ultimatecalibur]

Thank you for your well reasoned posts. Every prior attempt to create an alternative RP server has resulted in little more than a small 20-50 clique of players. This is because most RPers (like the person above) correctly realize that RPers require a vibrant, active community that can accommodate a diverse range of interests, RP styles, and content.

Both of you are misunderstanding why those attempts have failed. The $18 transfer fee per person is the primary reason that the large seed groups that are needed to create a stable RP groups are unwilling/unable to transfer away from Balmung. It costs $18 for 1 characters, $900 for 50 characters, $4,500 for 250 characters, and $18,000 for 1000 characters. As the total rises players are less able to justify the fee.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Sadly there isn't much they can do about it except lock it up for now.

Balmung has been getting crippled as it is effectively the Moonguard of FFXIV (If you played WoW you should know what that means). It was due to get reigned in sooner or later and now it looks like they finally took the step of locking transfers to that server.

Sadly without more cross-world play, it's not going to get better for the meantime.

[Yuji-Ikaido]

Sadly there isn't much they can do about it except lock it up for now.

Balmung has been getting crippled as it is effectively the Moonguard of FFXIV (If you played WoW you should know what that means). It was due to get reigned in sooner or later and now it looks like they finally took the step of locking transfers to that server.

Sadly without more cross-world play, it's not going to get better for the meantime.

This needs to stop. This is slander that's being spread by the neckbeards of reddit. Balmung is absolutely nothing like Moonguard. It's not even close.

[Velthice]

This needs to stop. This is slander that's being spread by the neckbeards of reddit. Balmung is absolutely nothing like Moonguard. It's not even close.

You complain about your community being broadly stereotyped, but do exactly that to another community? In the same sentence even? Uhhh...

[Yuji-Ikaido]

You complain about your community being broadly stereotyped, but do exactly that to another community? In the same sentence even? Uhhh...

Nowhere in my post did I say or even imply that everyone on reddit is a neckbeard. I said that it's the neckbeards who are spreading rumors. That's a pretty big difference.

[sydh]

SE should have taken the chance long ago to actively incentivise players to transfer or create characters elsewhere. The are already ready to give out bonuses as listed in the recent news post. Flat out locking a server is pretty bad if this is a long term thing... hopefully not past 4.0 launch. This could have been curbed quite a bit of they started last expansion or even in 2.x with how big Balmung and Gilgamesh had become.

Now it is a wait and see to what these bonuses actually are.

[Khalithar]

I wish there was a dedicated RP server. =/

[Velox]

You're welcome to come to Siren. There is a growing RP population here and plenty of space for everyone. It might be a great place to truly create a 2nd RP server. All it would take is people willing to put effort into making it so.

[odintius]

Well the alternative is just let it go until your server crashes or hours in que waiting your turn to get in you pick. /Shrug

[Alestorm]

The reasons why make sense. I played WoW during 2 major expansion launches on a medium pop server (Ner'Zhul) and ever launch everyone who quit would come back and logging in was a fight even hours prior to the content going live. I have my game client crash the night Warlords of Draenor went live and it took 3 days before I could log in due to the number of people trying to get in/were logged in.

Right now I'm happy being in a smaller server, means I can play when Stormblood goes live with little to no issues.